Chirality in anesthesia I: Minimum alveolar concentration of secondary alcohol enantiomers

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-84

  Won, Albert ^a   Oh, Irene ^a   Laster, Michael J ^a   Popovich, John ^a   Eger II, Edmond I ^a,b   Sonner, James M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANOL; ALCOHOL; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETONE; PENTANOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENANTIOMER; ISOMER; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RAT; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33745828149     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000217199.90426.7d     Document Type: Article

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